Fellow-citizens: I am very glad indeed to see you tonight, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called. (Cheers from the crowd.) How long ago is it? – 80-odd years –since on the Fourth of July for the first time in the history of the world a nation by its representatives, assembled and declared as a self-evident truth that “all men are created equal.” (Cheers from the crowd.) That was the birthday of the United States of America. Since then, the Fourth of July has had several peculiar recognitions. The two most distinguished men in the framing and support of the Declaration were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams – the one having penned it and the other sustained it the most forcibly in debate – the only two of the 55 who sustained it being elected president of the United States. Precisely 50 years after they put their hands to the paper, it pleased Almighty God to take both from the stage of…